'Great climacteric' definitions:

Definition of 'Great climacteric'

From: GCIDE
  • climb-down \climb-down\ n.
  • 1. a retraction of a previously held position.
  • Syn: withdrawal, backdown. [WordNet 1.5]
  • Grand climacteric or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. [1913 Webster]
  • I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. --Burke. [1913 Webster]